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Hello there! I'm Sister Diane and I have two grand passions: making crafts and making media. That's what I write about here, and sometimes, I get all thoughtful about internet culture and creative small businesses. Thanks for stopping by! Would you like some tea?  
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 Image by canopic, via Flickr Today starts a monthly post series. Each month about this time, I’m going to share with you the ways I supported some of the Free I enjoy online. Now, I’m not doing this to look like some kind of hero. I’m posting it publicly so I’ll stay accountable. If I know … Read On! There’s More!  Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion and Fun is one seriously charming book. I’ve been reading it deliberately slowly, so it’ll last longer. The book comes from Amy Barickman, who some of you might recognize as the founder of Indygo Junction and The Vintage Workshop. I’m going to tell you all about … Read On! There’s More!  Image by aussiegall, via Flickr Today, I want to take all this discussion of Free and Sustainability in a more concrete direction. Josh Kashorek, who’s participated in the comments here quite a bit, offered me this guest post on measuring the ROI (“Return on Investment”) of Free. I think it’s very useful stuff, and I’ll … Read On! There’s More!  Before I get into this review, I just want to say: Portland! Moxie will be at the downtown Powell’s Books this Sunday at 2:00pm, signing books and teaching us to needle-felt. You must come. It’s not often that a craft book has me giggling my head off – not often enough, anyway. But I Felt Awesome: … Read On! There’s More!  Just a quick note here, y’all – we start up the new session of Craft Blog Tune-Up on Monday! Blogging is a deceptive sport. On the surface of things, it looks like dashing off posts and pictures would be easy – wait for the Inspiration Fairy to visit, and bang, you’re done. Actually, there’s a lot … Read On! There’s More!  Image by psd, via Flickr Here we are with Post #3 of this series. And I owe a big debt of thanks to Elizabeth Drouillard for helping me find a coherent way to express all the things I wanted to say. If you’re interested in the rest of the series, here’s Post #1 and Post … Read On! There’s More!  I was checking my stats the other morning and found this coolio new feature in Analytics – now you can compare your stats for two different periods. I show you how to compare November of 2010 to November of 2009 in this video, but you can do all kinds of things: Compare this month to last … Read On! There’s More!  We’re being pretty serious around here these days, so I wanted to inject a little crafty eye candy. My granny square blanket is at last moving forward! It all started with the red squares, and then you helped me figure out the other colors. (Thank you!) Thanks to the NFL regular season, I’m exactly this far … Read On! There’s More!  Image via Shira Golding, via Flickr This post continues our discussion on Free and how sustainable it really is. If you missed it, read the first post, and all the amazing comments – they’ll give you context for this post. Wow. Based on the discussions and emails I’ve had, this idea of whether Free is sustainable … Read On! There’s More!  I’m loving all the discussion coming out of yesterday’s post about Free and Sustainability. Please, keep it coming! If we all put our heads together, we can find so many solutions. In the meantime, I wanted to catch you up on some tutorials and things I have going on right now… First, you may have missed … Read On! There’s More! |
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